Homeward appoints first chief medical officer and extra digital well being hires

Rural hybrid care supplier Homeward introduced the appointment of its first chief medical officer, Dr. Greg Burrell, a training inner drugs doctor.

Burrell will oversee the corporate’s medical and navigation technique throughout high quality assurance and markets, work to reinforce the member expertise, and assist healthcare techniques. 

He previously served as chief medical officer at employer health-benefits firm Gravie, and was VP of medical options and affiliate CMO at digital healthcare firm Accolade.

Burrell additionally cofounded digital major and pressing care supplier Carbon Well being, the place he served as VP of medical technique and product and first care medical director.

“At the moment marks a pivotal second in our journey to rearchitecting the supply of well being and care in rural America as we welcome Dr. Burrell as Homeward’s first chief medical officer,” Homeward cofounder and CEO Dr. Jennifer Schneider stated in an announcement. 

“Dr. Burrell’s medical perception, expertise constructing revolutionary medical product choices, and dedication to affected person expertise and care high quality can be invaluable as we proceed to develop and broaden to satisfy the healthcare wants of rural Individuals.”

New York-based psychological well being platform Headway has employed Susan Chiang as chief data safety officer.

Chiang beforehand acted as chief safety officer at cloud cybersecurity and website-services firm Cloudflare. Earlier than that, she was a part of the safety management staff at Uber, and frolicked in expertise and healthcare consulting at Deloitte. She additionally holds safety and technique expertise from working at Salesforce.

She’s going to oversee Headway’s engineering, IT, and knowledge privateness and safety.  

“I am thrilled to affix the staff and leverage my cybersecurity and healthcare expertise to assist make it an much more trusted place for its suppliers and sufferers,” Chiang stated in an announcement.

“As not solely a cybersecurity skilled but in addition a affected person myself, I deeply perceive the significance of defending medical knowledge. I stay up for constructing a world-class engineering staff that upholds suppliers’ and sufferers’ belief in Headway because the most secure and most safe place for his or her medical knowledge.”